More on Truth

[Guest guest]

Most of the time, truth is measured using the yardstick of materialism.

The spiritual Truth is non-measurable and without time dimension.

 

We never hesitate to measure truths using the materialistic yardstick.

This yardstick is the main reason why we classify others as - lier,

big-lier and biggest lier. Ordinary lies can survive as truth for a

short duration and big-lies can stay little longer. But even the biggest

lies can't stay as truth for a long time.

 

Relative strengths of truths are also measured by counting the number of

believers. Using quantity and duration, a composite index became a

common practice to measure the truth relatively. The famous quotation by

Abraham Lincoln illustrates this composite index: "We can fool some

people all the time or all the people sometime but we can never fool all

the people all the time!"

 

One of the interesting outcome of the materialistic yardstick is that

any measure of Truth simultaneously measures the corresponding Lie and

vice-versa. This is the principle of non-duality between truth and lie.

This materialistic approach uses the empirical observations (facts)and

it is quite appealing to our mind and is very easy to compute.

 

Is is possible to evaluate Truth spiritually? The answer is no. Then how

do we experience "TRUTH" spiritually? Spiritually, TRUTH is nothing but

the RESIDUAL after the negation of all lies. Until we clear all the

lies, we have no way to realize the TRUTH. The grammatical structure of

Sanskrit illustrates the negation principle in the construction of words

that go beyond human perception. This may explain why Sanskrit is

considered as divine and spiritual: Satyam (Truth) is revealed when

asatyam (lies) are negated. Similarly, suddham (purity) can be

established when we remove all the asuddham (dirt). Only after the

destruction of adharma (unethical human behavior) we can establish

dharma. Finally, vidya (wisdom) is impossible without the removal of

avidya (ignorance).

 

Classification of Sanskrit words:

 

Spiritual materialistic

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satyam - asatyam

suddham - asuddham

dharma - adharma

vidya - avidya

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We can only perceive the materialistic measure of asatyam, asuddham,

adharma and avidya. We have to go beyond these materialistic

perceptions to experience the Satyam (TRUTH) and Vidya (Wisdom) to

establish purity to the mind and will lead us to dharmic life.

 

Materialism is an illusion and as long that remains, we continue to

perceive dualism. Sankara's Advaitic philosophy emphasizes the

significance of the role of materialistic illusions and the importance

of their removal for the realization of Brahman.

 

--

Ram V. Chandran

Burke, VA

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

 

When I begin to write a reply, you already got the answer by yourself!

 

Spiritualism implies there is no more materialistic perception which

also includes words. The message is subtle and the more we try to

explain Truth, we are likely to have more confusion!

 

Your summary, Om is a pretty good conclusion.

 

Note: Truth is one but there are many lies for the same Truth!

 

--

Ram V. Chandran

Burke, VA

[Guest guest]

On the materialistic side, it's easy to see difference in the four words,

but is there one word in Sanskrit that combines the other four as all one

on the spirtual side?

 

Tamra

[Guest guest]

Maybe it's OM -- stillness and movement. Tha M even has four lines.